"Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind."

“Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!”

“Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2013). “Hunted: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Six”, p.90, Del Rey

“When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.”

“There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.”

“... there is no end to the deceits of the past ...”

Source : Vernon Lee (1908). “Limbo, and Other Essays: To which is Now Added, Ariadne in Mantua”

“Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.”

Source : "True Blood Actress Adina Porter: On Grief, Dedication, and Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.”

“What happens to women happens to the entire nation. People work hard. But when you're working long hours, you don't get to spend time with your kids, you don't get a chance to take a vacation every now and then, you don't get a chance to make a big purchase (which helps the economy). There's something wrong with that. This isn't about wages, this about quality of life.”